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Quotes about Genuineness

The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.
— Joseph Brodsky
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.
— Publilius Syrus
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.
— Randy Alcorn
Truth is the thread that separates true spirituality from false spirituality.
— Ravi Zacharias
Years ago I heard a well-known Bible teacher say, "If you want to find a spiritual person, don't look in the church." He said that because in church you can't tell who is real and who is putting
— Joyce Meyer
I challenge you to be finished with rationalizations and hypocrisy.
— James MacDonald
The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never hold too much back because no one will ever really capture who the real Eva Marie is.
— Eva Marie